Swimming at the 2015 African Games

Swimming at the 2015 African Games
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m		women
4×200 m		women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
Mixed relay
4×100 m	freestyle	medley
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The Swimming competitions at the 2015 African Games in Brazzaville was held between 6 and 11 September at the Kintele Aquatic Complex.

Events[]

Similar to the program's format in 2015, swimming features a total of 42 events (20 each for men and women), including two Mixed events. The following events were contested (all pool events are long course, and distances are in metres unless stated):

• Freestyle: 50, 100, 200, 400, 800, and 1,500;
• Backstroke: 50, 100 and 200;
• Breaststroke: 50, 100 and 200;
• Butterfly: 50, 100 and 200;
• Individual medley: 200 and 400;
• Relays: 4×100 free, 4×200 free; 4×100 medley
• Mixed events: 4 × 100 m freestyle relay and 4 × 100 m medley relay

Schedule[]

A = Afternoon session, N = Night session

Medal summary[]

Swimming medal standings upon completion of the competition are:^[1]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Africa	25	18	11	54
2	Egypt	11	18	12	41
3	Algeria	3	2	5	10
4		3	0	1	4
5	Tunisia	0	2	9	11
6		0	1	0	1
		0	1	0	1
8		0	0	3	3
9		0	0	1	1
Totals (9 nations)		42	42	42	126

Results[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m freestyle details	Douglas Erasmus  South Africa	22.61	Egypt	22.97	Clayton Jimmie  South Africa	22.98
100m freestyle details	Clayton Jimmie  South Africa	49.93	Mohamed Samy  Egypt	49.97	South Africa	50.28
200m freestyle details	Devon Brown  South Africa	1:47.77 GR	Egypt	1:48.58	Ahmed Mathlouthi  Tunisia	1:49.29
400m freestyle details	Ahmed Akram  Egypt	3:48.06	Devon Brown  South Africa	3:48.69	Ahmed Mathlouthi  Tunisia	3:51.47
800m freestyle details	Ahmed Akram  Egypt	7:55.36 GR	Egypt	7:59.54	Devon Brown  South Africa	7:59.57
1500m freestyle details	Ahmed Akram  Egypt	15:11.68	Ahmed Mathlouthi  Tunisia	15:30.36	Brent Szurdoki  South Africa	15:35.48
50m backstroke details	Mohamed Samy  Egypt	25.71	South Africa	25.89	Egypt	26.16
100m backstroke details	South Africa	55.83	South Africa	55.84	Mohamed Samy  Egypt	56.31
200m backstroke details	Martin Binedell  South Africa	2:02.23	South Africa	2:02.32	Egypt	2:04.35
50m breaststroke details	Cameron van der Burgh  South Africa	27.18	Youssef El Kamash  Egypt	28.10	Tunisia	28.62
100m breaststroke details	Cameron van der Burgh  South Africa	1:00.19 GR	Youssef El Kamash  Egypt	1:02.42	Tunisia	1:02.79
200m breaststroke details	Ayrton Sweeney  South Africa	2:14.41	Tunisia	2:17.80	Youssef El Kamash  Egypt	2:19.03
50m butterfly details	Chad le Clos  South Africa	23.51	Omar Eissa  Egypt	24.18	Egypt	24.94
100m butterfly details	Chad le Clos  South Africa	51.24 GR	Omar Eissa  Egypt	53.54	South Africa	55.26
200m butterfly details	Ahmed Akram  Egypt	1:58.87	Devon Brown  South Africa	1:59.28	Egypt	2:01.54
200m Individual medley details	Devon Brown  South Africa	2:01.71	Egypt	2:02.38	Ayrton Sweeney  South Africa	2:04.22
400m Individual medley details	Ayrton Sweeney  South Africa	4:21.83	Pedro Pinotes	4:23.12	Egypt	4:23.87
4 × 100 m   freestyle relay	South Africa Douglas Erasmus (50.29) Clayton Jimmie (49.67) Calvyn Justus (50.05) (49.68)	3:19.69	Egypt Omar Eissa (50.61) (49.98) (50.27) Mohamed Samy (49.36)	3:20.22	Algeria (52.26) Nazim Belkhodja (50.60) (52.28) (51.02)	3:26.16
4 × 200 m   freestyle relay	South Africa Brent Szurdoki (1:51.94) Calvyn Justus (1:50.68) Devon Brown (1:48.05) Chad le Clos (1:47.95)	7:18.62	Egypt (1:51.60) Mohamed Samy (1:50.63) Ahmed Akram (1:48.61) (1:49.81)	7:20.65	Tunisia (1:51.01) (1:53.81) (2:01.37) Ahmed Mathlouthi (1:58.87)	7:45.06
4 × 100 m   medley relay details	Egypt (56.85) Youssef El Kamash (1:02.10) Omar Eissa (54.16) Mohamed Samy (49.33)	3:42.44	South Africa (55.90) Ayrton Sweeney (1:03.39) (54.37) Clayton Jimmie (49.19)	3:42.85	Tunisia Ahmed Mathlouthi (58.10) (1:02.93) (59.16) (51.81)	3:52.00

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m freestyle details	Farida Osman  Egypt	25.12 GR	Karin Prinsloo  South Africa	25.79	Egypt	26.04
100m freestyle details	Farida Osman  Egypt	55.41 GR	Karin Prinsloo  South Africa	55.69	Egypt	57.03
200m freestyle details	Karin Prinsloo  South Africa	2:00.14	South Africa	2:02.61	Majda Chebaraka  Algeria	2:02.63
400m freestyle details	Karin Prinsloo  South Africa	4:18.86	Majda Chebaraka  Algeria	4:19.24	South Africa	4:19.43
800m freestyle details	Majda Chebaraka  Algeria	8:58.53	South Africa	9:00.15	Egypt	9:07.94
1500m freestyle details	Majda Chebaraka  Algeria	17:07.82	South Africa	17:11.34	Souad Nafissa Cherouati  Algeria	17:18.35
50m backstroke details	South Africa	29.05	Naomi Ruele	29.70	Alexus Laird	30.07
100m backstroke details	Kirsty Coventry	1:01.15	Karin Prinsloo  South Africa	1:02.53	South Africa	1:03.32
200m backstroke details	Kirsty Coventry	2:13.29	Karin Prinsloo  South Africa	2:14.31	Tunisia	2:20.16
50m breaststroke details	Tatjana Schoenmaker  South Africa	32.49	Egypt	32.58		32.69
100m breaststroke details	Tatjana Schoenmaker  South Africa	1:09.47	Egypt	1:11.07		1:11.31
200m breaststroke details	Tatjana Schoenmaker  South Africa	2:28.84	South Africa	2:31.52		2:34.23
50m butterfly details	Farida Osman  Egypt	26.31 GR	South Africa	26.39	South Africa	27.02
100m butterfly details	Farida Osman  Egypt	58.83	South Africa	1:00.26	South Africa	1:03.86
200m butterfly details	South Africa	2:16.40	Egypt	2:17.80	Egypt	2:20.49
200m Individual medley details	Kirsty Coventry	2:16.05	South Africa	2:17.57	South Africa	2:18.98
400m Individual medley details	Hamida Rania Nefsi  Algeria	4:56.75	Souad Nafissa Cherouati  Algeria	4:57.30	Egypt	4:58.88
4 × 100 m   freestyle relay details	South Africa (57.91) (57.14) (58.50) Karin Prinsloo (55.49)	3:49.04	Egypt (56.71) (58.43) (1:00.13) Farida Osman (55.03)	3:50.30	Tunisia (59.61) (59.69) (1:01.15) (59.10)	3:59.55
4 × 200 m   freestyle relay details	South Africa (2:04.51) (2:06.57) (2:08.04) Karin Prinsloo (2:01.16)	8:20.28	Egypt (2:05.51) (2:06.64) (2:07.20) (2:11.19)	8:30.84	Algeria Majda Chebaraka (2:03.89) Hamida Rania Nefsi (2:13.31) Souad Nafissa Cherouati (2:08.26) (2:09.65)	8:35.11
4 × 100 m   medley relay details	South Africa (1:03.26) Tatjana Schoenmaker (1:11.07) (1:02.10) Karin Prinsloo (55.93)	4:12.36	Egypt (1:07.44) (1:11.10) Farida Osman (59.72) (56.92)	4:15.18	Tunisia (1:06.57) (1:16.88) (1:04.68) (1:02.51)	4:29.64

Mixed events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4 × 100 m   freestyle relay details	South Africa Chad le Clos (48.50) Clayton Jimmie (50.22) (57.10) Karin Prinsloo (55.74)	3:31.56	Egypt (56.71) (50.69) Farida Osman (55.69) Mohamed Samy (49.43)	3:32.52	Algeria Nazim Belkhodja (50.70) Souad Nafissa Cherouati (58.36) (52.25) Majda Chebaraka (59.62)	3:49.04
4 × 100 m   medley relay details	Egypt Mohamed Samy (57.28) Youssef El Kamash (1:02.67) Farida Osman (59.27) (56.82)	3:56.04	South Africa (1:03.79) Alaric Basson (1:03.04) (54.63) Karin Prinsloo (54.81)	3:56.27	Kirsty Coventry (1:02.10) James Lawson (1:02.92) (1:05.08) Sean Gunn (50.68)	4:00.78

References[]

External links[]

• Results
• https://web.archive.org/web/20150911011858/http://www.cojabrazzaville2015.com/en/calendrier-sport/?sport=16
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USEE4aqy2WY